Ancestry and Innovation
The Gibbes Museum of Art is located in Charleston’s Historic District at 135 Meeting Street (2 blocks south of the Market between Cumberland and Queen Streets).
African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
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This exhibition celebrates the ongoing contribution of self-taught African American artists to the kaleidoscope of American culture and visual experience. Works on view will include vibrant quilts, paintings, and sculpture by an elder generation of creators, such as Sam Doyle, David Butler, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; works by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial Sr.; and provocative pieces by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliott.
Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum was organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The exhibition was made possible by MetLife Foundation. Sponsors for the Gibbes exhibition include auxiliary group Gibbes, etc. and Charleston magazine.
Star Quilt, 1977, by Nora McKeon Ezell (1917-2007), Eutaw, Alabama, cotton and synthetics, 94 x 79 inches, collection of the American Folk Art Museum, New York, museum purchase made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with matching funds from The Great American Quilt Festival
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